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xXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXx ____ ____ ____ | || |\ \ | || |/____/ What is love? | || |\ \ ir file number 022 |____||____| |____| released 08.01.00 | || |\| | by Xade |____||____| |____| we're just fucking with your mind. impulse reality xXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXx Written over a year ago, very serious tone... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is love? Does one truly know what love is? But... are you sure of yourself? Have you ever doubted your love for the one you've claimed as your Love? Do you have love? Can you be loved? Have you ever stopped and pondered... "What is love?" Is love a concept? Is it all in one's head? Do we really love people, or do we just think we do? Is it a trick that we think we love only one because that is what one is expected or supposed to do? Is it just a concept to be accepted that we must love? Is love something believed to be true? Should we love only because others think we all should? Ah, such are those who go through life denying all life and feelings to be true. Those are such who believe love to be only a concept. Or... is love simply a state-of-mind? All one does is love and be loved. Do you get so far into thinking you love that you start believing you love? Do you believe with all your might that you must love; for why would you or the other person be together have there not be love present? This is a faulty ideal of love most fall victim to, in and out of relationships. Most believe love to be merely a feeling you have for another. They feel the need to love; therefore, they do. This is a human need, to love. To feel you must love, to feel you love, to feel loved: all these things only constitute skin-deep feelings. Although, a love such as this, based on feeling, can truly mess one up in the process, for it is the phycological mind being tampered with in this situation. Love is deeper than just a feeling. The storybooks that our society's children read, portray love as a nirvana, a state where all is peaceful and nothing is disturbed. If love were a nirvana, this would return to being "all in your head," a figment of your imagination. Movies and storybooks show only this one "side" of love, portraying it as such a juvenile feelingto have something so innocent. The media pump these ideals of love into our society's heads. So much so that those who are victims to this, have predetermined ideas of what love really is to themselves. Love is not just the nirvana-like, airy, floaty feeling one experiences at times. Love is truly deeper than this. With friendship, there is love; with love, there is friendship. There is no friendship without love; there is no love without friendship. The two go hand-in-hand. Although, there is no love before friendship; there is friendship before love. That is how it happens, how it works. The parties involved must first be friends. For, how can one love another, if he is not a friend first? How is it love when a husband beats his wife (given there are phycological problems involved)? When one is a friend, one acts like a friend. Would a friend harm you? Would a friend neglect you? Would a friend not do anything in his power for you? Does a friend provide? Is a friend trustworthy? Is a friend loyal? Is a friend faithful to you beyond all measures? Is a friend there when comfort is needed? Does a friend care? With these characteristics come friendship, and with friendship, comes love. Love is a commitment both parties must partake. There is no mutual love when there is no mutual commitment. Love is not boastful, for if one loves another, he shall not covet or withold anything from the one he loves. One shall not covet the love received from the other without returning the love. For love is an endless cycle of giving and receiving. Not a one should be left out in the cold. Love is in fact a lifestyle. A style of life, a lifetime indeed, dedicated to loving the one true friend you love with all your heart. Love is waking up to the single person you want to wake up to for the rest of your life. The one you cant live without. Love is doing anything to be with that one. Love has a mystery to it, being love itself. Nothing gets in the the path of love. Love would never allow it. Love is indeed patient. It must be. For it is so much more enjoyable to let it grow and take its own path than to rush it for fear of losing it. But that fear of losing is present in the budding of love. Dianna Ross is right, you can't hurry love. Love takes time. And with it comes tears, tears of happiness and tears of pain. Love overcomes everything. The Beatles claim "all we need is love, love is all we need..." The seed of love is planted early in friendship. It is left to the friendship to nourish the love, so that it will be in full bloom. So that one day it can be celebrated. Love is a lifetime of dedication to one dearest to your heart. Love is that gut-wrenching feeling you get when you pour out your heart to someone. Love knows only the ways of love itself. With love, you must endure and suffer the pains of the other. You must be willing to cope with your own feelings and the other's as well. Love. If there's a will, there's a way. 29AUG99 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- hallo (: xXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXx (c)2k Impulse Reality http://www.impulsereality.zzn.com xXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXx